Log Piles

16/3/2015

I can't believe I am building a log pile today.

It wasn't what I had planned, and I was a bit annoyed when a quiet day in the studio was rudely interrupted by the tractor rumbling up the track like thunder with a year's worth of logs on the trailer.
But I get into it as I go. It is almost a sculptural experience, and methodical and meditative. There is an art to making a log pile, all the logs have to be stacked so that (a) they are sound and won't collapse over the year, and (b) air has to be allowed to circulate to keep the logs dry and stop them rotting.

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I work a LOT in sketchbooks and always have several on the go. My dad was an architect and naval draughtsman, and after he died in 2017 I found heaps of old templates while clearing out his study. Always having been an avid collector of shapes, at the beginning of this year I bought a WHSmith A5 diary to use as a sketchbook specifically for work based on them.

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As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
If you would like to visit my Binky website, please click the picture above.

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